[Digikam-users] Digikam+Darktable workflow

[Marie-Noëlle Augendre]

Main things I do differently:
 - I use flags in darktable only for internal purposes, for example keeping
trace of which files have been exported, and which remain to be edited
 - I export from daktable in TIFF format, and use this file as my main
edited file. I then use Digikam (and more often the batch tool manager) to
resisze/convert anytime I need some JPEGs for publishing on line, creating
photo-books and such.
 - I put all the formats in the same folders, as Digikam provides filters
to display whatever format is needed. The exception being folders dedidated
to some specific work (photo-books for example) when it's easier to manage
all the required pictures in their specific formats in the same place. In
fact, such folders could be managed outside Digikam.
 - I usually group all the formats of the same picture, with the TIFF
picture being the head of group.

And on import from my cameras, RAW files go into working folders first.
That's where I make my first selections. Only the pictures I intend to keep
(between 10% and 30% of each shooting session?) are transfered to their
final folder.

Marie-Noëlle

2016-02-18 14:00 GMT+01:00 jonas <jonas at freesources.org>:

> Hi list,
>
> I just started using Darktable as my main photo editing/postprocessing
> software. So far, I'm very happy with it. Still, all my photo albums are
> organized in Digikam. Thus I'm searching for advice on a convenient
> workflow for archiving and editing my photos.
>
> Right now, my workflow is the following:
>
> * I take pictures with my camera in RAW format and import them into a
>   subfolder "raw" of the respective album in Digikam.
> * Then I go through all the RAW pictures, select the good ones and tag
>   them as "outstanding" (yellow flag).
> * Then I use a search mask to show only the "outstanding" pictures,
>   select all of them and open them with Darktable (Open with ...)
> * In Darktable, I edit my pictures and rate them.
> * If I decide to abort a picture in Darktable, I select it as aborted
>   there, go to the Digikam search mask and mark it as aborted in
>   Digikam as well (red flag).
> * After finishing with editing, I export all pictures from Darktable in
>   JPG format to the folder "../" (i.e. the album folder, with is the
>   parent folder of current "raw" subfolder).
> * Finally, I tag all pictures from the Digikam search as "done" (green
>   flag) and remove them from the collection in Darktable.
>
> As a result, I have my edited pictures in JPG format in the album folder
> and all RAW files in a subfolder "raw".
>
> A few things that I consider as inconvenient with this workflow:
>
> * Flagging pictures as outstanding, aborted, done seems to be special
>   to Digikam. Darktable doesn't know these flags and as a result I'm
>   unable to do the flagging directly in Darktable while editing.
> * It would be awesome if Digikam would know that the JPG version in the
>   album folder is a new version of the RAW source version in the "raw"
>   subfolder.
> * If I find that I want to do some more editing later while browsing
>   the JPG versions, I have to search for the corresponding RAW file in
>   the "raw" subfolder and open it in Darktable for now. It would be
>   awesome if I could simply select "open the RAW file in Darktable"
>   from the JPG version.
>
> I'm looking forward to read your suggestions on how to improve my
> workflow with Digikam and Darktable. As I've written, I just started
> using the two programs together, so I don't know about each and every
> feature yet. I'm sure that there's much space for improvement :)
>
> Cheers
>  jonas
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